Subject: Places (Page 6)

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

All Englishmen talk as if they’ve got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

If you live to be ninety in England and can still eat a boiled egg they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

(1959 – ) American comedian

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

(1980 – ) English comedian, television and radio presenter & actor

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

To err is human; to loaf, Parisian.

(1802 – 1885) French writer

Camp: A place in the country where a mother sends her children for her vacation.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Scotland, the country where they fry the food five times to make sure it’s dead.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

(1942 – ) Scottish comedian, musician & actor

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

A city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

(1885 –1974) American cartoonist, humor writer & radio personality

And later on, it’s the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from Hawaii.

The people of this country have allowed football to get completely out of hand, and that’s fortunate for my bank account.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn’t appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author